16 // Dictated (Backdated to the end of the Opt-in plot)

[nothingtobelieve]

So no one noticed.

[A pause]

Which means it really was contained.

[Probably for the best. It probably would have been far worse with more people running around]


[Filtered to Gren]

You're still around?

[Because it's probably a good thing to check, given what just happened]

Comments

[hard_talker]

Wait, wait, wait. Inquiring minds wanna know. What happened?

[nothingtobelieve]

We were taken to a deserted part of the city. There was a... being we were forced to subdue.

[He refused to call it a monster, even if that was basically what it had been. Of course, the whole situation had been a bit more complicated than he made it sound, but Vicious isn't one for elaboration.]

[hard_talker]

A being. You wanna be a little more specific about what, exactly, it was bein' at the time?

[nothingtobelieve]

I don't know what, exactly, it was. Not human. Not easy to defeat.

[hard_talker]

So, wait, you're telling me there was a giant fuckin' fight and for some reason nobody decided to up and actually, you know, tell people about it?

[nothingtobelieve]

Our journals didn't function while we were there. Why no one else has spoken up since, I couldn't say.

[hard_talker]

..... The journals were busted? Now that's a new one. Now I really am wondering if there's something this place doesn't want us to know.

[nothingtobelieve]

I didn't notice any connections to the castle, but that doesn't mean they weren't there.

[hard_talker]

I dunno if you've noticed, but around here, just about everything's connected to the castle one way or another.

[nothingtobelieve]

It is the ultimate cause of things. That doesn't mean everything that it causes is relevant.

[hard_talker]

Okay, yeah, that's a good point. ... But I'd think a monster was pretty fuckin' relevant, if you ask me.

[nothingtobelieve]

Its only motivation seemed to be to kill. Effective for trying to terrorize, I suppose.

[hard_talker]

Yeah, but not for much else, which pretty much guarantees that it's castle-made bullshit, right? I mean ... it wasn't after people to like, eat 'em or something, was it?

[nothingtobelieve]

It did try to bite a few.

[hard_talker]

[he lets out a chuckle that's a little bit lecherous, because, well, he's a teenage boy]

I think bitin's different than flat-out eatin'.

[nothingtobelieve]

[He's just going to ignore the juvenile humor...]

You didn't see it.

[hard_talker]

In case you forgot, that's kinda why I asked.

[nothingtobelieve]

I hadn't forgotten.

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

Yeah, of course I am.

[He simply assumed that Vicious was less than pleased with him for the slip up and left it at that, but now he's wondering]

...Why?

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

[Ah, good. The last thing he wanted to do was go chasing around the city after other abducted people...]

A small group of us were transported elsewhere temporarily.

[Good enough explanation, right?]

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

[Not quite]

What do you mean elsewhere? What happened?

[That note of worry is sneaking in]

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

An empty part of the city. Or a city. There was a creature that required containment.

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

[There's a pause while he mentally translates that]

So you got into a fight?

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

I avoided most of it.

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

What did the creature want with you then?

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

It wanted us dead.

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

What for? It's not as if you asked to be there.

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

I don't think it cared why we were there. It didn't seem capable of understanding.

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

Was anybody hurt? [Now that he knows you're ok]

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

Nothing life-threatening.

[Which was about all the attention he paid to that detail. He didn't know any of them, anyway]

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

Better than last time.

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

To an extent.

[Vicious]

[both_neither]

...just come back, ok?

[Gren]

[nothingtobelieve]

I had no intention of doing otherwise.